A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

Alan Yentob takes the artist Howard Hodgkin away from his Bloomsbury studio to India to discover more about his works and what inspires him.

Neo Rauch: A German Painter

The Painter and the Lover Yet to Be

Lillian Green has escaped, finding herself in the homely abode of a mysterious yet charming portrait artist.

A Painter's Journal

As the moon reflects the sun, so the painter reflects the world.' These words spoken by Renata Druks suggest the lunar nature of this reflection as it applies to her work. Her film poetically examines the transmutation o

Swingin' in the Painter's Room

The film is a comedy about a young New York artist full of himself who is at a party, at his home, in his studio bedroom, to celebrate his next and first exhibition in a gallery. The film focuses on envious friends, infi

The Painter's Muse

A writer tells us about a story, of which he played a part in, between a Painter and the painter’s Muse.

From the Painter's View

Siavash, a 6-year-old, won a painting award, and now his parents analyze his TV interview about a wall-less home in the painting. Everyone's searching for an explanation, but none are correct.

Velázquez: The Painter of Painters

Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he travelled through Ita

Jimmy the Air Painter

Alex Colville: Realist Painter

Alex Colville, one of Canada's most important artists, is interviewed and talks about his upbringing, his experiences as an official war artist during World War Two, the inspiration for his paintings, his respect for ani

A Painter's Journey

A painter and a filmmaker embark on a long journey in Anatolia. Their aim is to combine and compare two different arts in their common denominator "space". The painter and the director take a break in different geographi

The Painter Came From a Foreign Land

In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process, he interviews artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, and Han

Otto Dix: The Ruthless Painter

The painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) dissected and exposed his time like no other. The portraits from the world of the milieu of whores and suitors, of sexual violence, were a taboo break. His brutal depiction of war shook s

Wonpyung - THE BLIND PAINter

The Painter of Truth

One day, a beautiful but cursed Yeoksin — the god of plague — asks the monk-painter Dohwaseung to paint his likeness. Dohwaseung refuses and instead depicts him as a hideous demon. Enraged, Yeoksin lays a curse upon Dohw

The Painter Zlatyu Boyadzhiev

Short Bulgarian documentary shown at Cannes 1961.

Wansei Painter - Tetsuomi Tateishi

Tetsuomi Tateishi was a Japanese painter born in Taiwan. His achievements were forgotten as he was repatriated to Japan after WWII and most of his paintings were lost.

The Tale About the Enamored Painter

Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all

The Endless Moment: The Painter Rolf Kuhlmann

German realist painter Rolf Kuhlmann is known for his complex, multilayered figures in compositions which evoke the world of dreams. In this remarkable documentary, director Claudia Schmid spends a year following the art

The Neo-Impressionist Painter

A painter is seen in his studio with his model. A buyer comes in, and the painter shows him a number of his paintings, all of them based on puns, including one of a devil shooting pool. Eventually, the buyer purchases al